Docket+ 12 August

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Highlights

1. Quantifying the vulnerabilities of the online public square to adversarial manipulation tactics (Oxford Academic, July)
2. How disinformation is increasingly weaponised against women and minority groups (Centre for Information Resilience, 6 August)
3. Mind the internet safety gap: A recent survey shows that young women and girls in the global majority regularly face abuse online, but feel as though they are not supported by platforms, parents, schools, or law enforcement. How can we close this gap? (Everything in Moderation, 6 August)
4. Research Compilation on Online Antisemitism (ISD, 8 August)
5. Detection and Characterization of Coordinated Online Behavior: A Survey (ArXiv, 2 August)
6. The Importance of Diverse Voices in Tech (Anchor Change, 8 August)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Researchers Consider the Impact of Meta's CrowdTangle Shutdown (Tech Policy Press, 4 August)
2. Trust and Safety in Domain Name Governance (Lawfare, 5 August)
3. The Consequences of Big Tech's Unchecked Consolidation of Power (Tech Policy Press, 6 August)
4. The delicate balance of safety and speech, Nazis (again) and the realities of NCII abuse (Everything in Moderation, 2 August)
5. TikTok commits to permanently withdraw TikTok Lite Rewards programme from the EU to comply with the Digital Services Act (European Commission, 5 August)
6. The lure of decentralized social media: Extending the UTAUT model for understanding users’ adoption of blockchain-based social media (Plos One, 7 August)
7. Book Review: Fast Politics - Propaganda in the Age of TikTok by Laura Pérez Rastrilla, Pablo Sapag M., and Armando Recio García (SAGE, 6 August)

AI & LLMs

1. Misinforming LLMs: vulnerabilities, challenges and opportunities (ArXiv, 2 August)
2. The Implications of Open Generative Models in Human-Centered Data Science Work: A Case Study with Fact-Checking Organizations (ArXiv, 4 August)